From strangers, the truth: Jenny Webb on asylum

‘This man’s words convey the way in which othering is built into the asylum system.’

by Jenny Webb 3rd December 2021

Some Navajo people prefer to be known as the Diné, which means ‘the people’. But if ‘we’ are ‘the people’ then maybe others do not qualify as people. And maybe this was once used as a justification for marauding, killing, and enslaving people.